Jürgen Karnopp

Jürgen Karnopp (born January 3, 1943 in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten ) is a German visual artist . He created numerous sculptures and decorative water systems for the residential areas built in East Berlin between the 1970s and the late 1980s . His preferred working material is ceramics .

Life

During the GDR period he worked as a freelance artist , but mainly carried out government contracts. After the reunification , Karnopp moved to the Faulenrost community in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , where he also runs his studio.

Ceramic seat fountain

1981: Ceramic fountain in the Alt-Friedrichsfelde street in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.
Since the 1990s, no more water has flowed from the jets, the work of art disintegrated more and more. The Lichtenberg district administration therefore had the fountain basin planted.

Ball fountain

1984: Kugelbrunnen on the Anton-Saefkow-Promenade in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin-Fennpfuhl

1989: Wall of water , also known as water cascades , on the edge of the Fennpfuhl Park. This fountain, which is popular with
park visitors, was also gnawed by the ravages of time, especially after the fall of the Wall. In addition, strangers smeared the wall behind it, about two meters high. A restoration and replacement of the pipes and pumps was not planned in the district budget, so the flat, large former well basins have been used as flower beds since the end of the 20th century.

Fountain with waterfall A small waterfall poured into a
hexagonal ceramic fountain basin; the well system made of clinker stands in front of tropical plants. Here, too, the function of the well is no longer preserved.

1983: shaped stone wall made of round fluted clinker bricks, which shielded a playground with a brick and curved wall . In the wall of different heights there were also niches paved with granite stones .
When the playground was rebuilt in the 2010s, only part of the wall was preserved.

1984: Stone relief for wall design in the building of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

1987: organs
in the green area at Anton-Saefkow-Platz (not preserved)

(Year unknown) Ceramic wall that surrounded the monument to the creators of Frankfurt's Lennépark . The city administration had the wall dismantled on the occasion of the monument renovation in 2000 and stored in an art depot. In 2017, an exhibition of 12 such previously stored works of art, organized by photographer Martin Maleschka and city councilor and cultural scientist Sahra Damus , took place in the auditorium of the European University Viadrina . A broad public discussion is intended as to what should happen in the future with such previously lost works of art.

Among other things, Karnopp took part in the IX. Art exhibition of the GDR 1982/1983 in Dresden .

Commons : Jürgen Karnopp - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Ceramic Fountain (Jürgen Karnopp) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ Monika Arnold: These planters are the remains of a ceramic fountain , in: Berliner Morgenpost online, March 21, 2013 (unfortunately, the reproduction on the Internet with all the tax codes has become almost illegible by the Morgenpost editorial staff.)
^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in Berlin-Lichtenberg , Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, 1993, p. 50.
^ Sculptures, monuments and fountains in Berlin-Lichtenberg , Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, 1993, p. 16.
↑ Model of the wall relief in the Archives of the Brandenburg Sciences, collection number P / BON-0693 , accessed on February 4, 2017.
^ Art in the public space of the 80s and 90s in Berlin , accessed on February 4, 2017.
↑ Sonja Jenning: Stored and almost forgotten , in the MOZ , June 14, 2017; accessed on October 5, 2018.
↑ Sonja Jenning: Awareness of what is forgotten. in the MOZ, August 12, 2017.
^ Art exhibition Dresden 1982/1983 ; in the Chemnitz Central Library, reading room , accessed on October 5, 2018.